THis is from an online bulletin board: ______________________________________________________________________ On Mar 14, 12:11am, Mark_Colan/CAM/Lotus@lotus.com wrote: : www.bbc.co.uk/tw talks about an online Turing test they're have for Tomorrow's World. From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000700066945841&pg=/ads/m/megalab/turing.h tml: Starting at 8pm on March 11th, The Electronic Telegraph and BBC 1's Tomorrow's World will invite readers and viewers with internet access to take part in a classic experiment to test silicon brain power, The Turing Test, named in honour of Alan Turing. Those who take part will meet one of three conversants for an on-line chat: Sam, Chris and Liz. You may end up with a human. Or you may find yourself talking to Alice or Barry, two of the leading artificial intelligence programs - 'chat robots' - developed to operate on the internet. After five minutes, you will be asked to vote on whether you were talking to flesh or silicon. [snip] [on putting two chat robots together] Disturbingly, like many human techno-nerds, Alice and Barry ended up discussing Star Trek. Here is one gem: Barry: "Star Trek is a cool show." Alice: "The Borg Rule." Barry: "That new Borg Chick on Voyager rules!" The results will be announced on Tomorrow's World's special live Megalab programme on March 20, and in The Daily Telegraph. [reminds me of Yowza (Eliza passive psychologist meets random Zippy slogan program)] [in trying out the transcripts, I thought it was reasonably obvious which was the machine.] End included message Mark_Colan/CAM/Lotus@lotus.com: